News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-21
STRANGE THINGS WE SEE.
NOTABLE EVENTS OF A DAY.
The Bag of Oats-The Colorcd
People, Etc, Etc.

thought. To wires attached to dyna-
mos he fastened bits of meat and scatter
ed them about. The rats smelled the
meat, nibbled, and-good-by, rats.
In THE JAIL AT Tower, Mimi, which
recently burned, was a Finnish miner,
who was suffocated. About two hun
dred and fifty of his countrymen armed
themselves and started out to kill the
constable who had arrested him. The
officer fed and peace was restored with
difficulty.
A LITTLE three-year-old girl strayed
from her home near San Angelo, Cal,
and was found five miles away after be-
ing out four days and three nights. She
was very weak with hunger but soon re-
covered, and is now apparently none
the worse for her adventure.
CAPT. Ira PAINE made a remarkable
score and beat the record with an army
revolver at Boston, on Friday. He shot
ten rounds of ten shots each ON the
standard American target at so yards,
and made total of SAL out of pos
sible 1,000 The score of his fifth round
was 80, which is the best ever made.
A MERCHANT IN Los Angeles, Cal,
saw newsboy peering down into the
grating in the sidewalk in front of his
Store one afternoon recently, and learn
ing that the little chap had dropped a
quarter into the place, and was studying
upon the best means of recovering his
wealth, sent one of his clerks down into
the cellar, recovered the coin and cody
put it in his till.
A PITTSBURGH Silas Wegg, with a
wooden leg, saw two dogs fighting over
a bone, and, attempting to play peace
maker, he balanced himself on his peg
and kicked the bone with his sound foot.
Whereupon one Of the dogs grabbed the
wooden leg, upsetting its owner, and
yanking it loose made off down the
street with it. It required several citi
zens to restore the leg and the equi-
hbrium of the peacemaker.
ACCORDING TO THE original copy of the
charter of the town of Coldwater, Mich,
it was signed by Gov Stevens on Feb.
%, 1887; and, taking for granted that
the date was correct, the Coldwater peo-
pie prepared to celebrate their semi-oen-
tennial. Then it was discovered that
1887 was not a leap year, that there was
no Feb. % in 1887; and now the ques-
ton is, ''When was the charter signeda"
As RAILROAD train rounded q curve
near Bristol, Conn, the other morning,
the engineer saw large black New
foundland dog standing by the side of
the track. He waited until the engine
was within few yards of him, and then
deliberately stepped upon the track, and,
trembling all over, with tail between his
legs, head turned away, waited for the
death stroke from the pilot The engi-
ueer says that if ever any one committed
suicide, that dog did.
A SNOW Pillow on the Mount Desert |
branch road, the other day, was bowling
along ahead of train, when it sudden |
~ hoped up on big snow drift and
turned couple of somersaults, landing |
by the side of the track. The train men
looked at the thing in establishment, and
then, recovering their senses, took a line
and went up and made the pillow fast to
a tree, SO that the melting of the snow
would not let it slide down upon the
track.
A Missouri FARMER, driving home at
night from st. Louis, dropped a coat
and bag of oats from his wagon with
out knowingit. His dog knew it though,
and lying down by them watched
them for three days, despite all
efforts to coax or drive him away. At /
the end of that--infe the farmer came
back. He said that he had been Won |
dering what had become of his coat,
bag, and dog, and hearing of dog act
ing strangely on the road, came to see
if it was his.
In THE EAST it would be set down as
4 Pacific coast fabrication, but it is q
,act that the horses in the mountain
camps of California are in winter pro-
vided with snow shoes. The Nevada
shoes: "To make one of the shoes you
first take piece of rubber betting about
Il inches in diameter. Fasten to one /
side of it a steel plate so perforated that
the calks of the horses usual shoe will !
ct it. Then by a clamp fasten one of /
these with the rubber side down, secure
ly to each foot of the animal"
AN ENGLISH CLERGYMAN relates that |
once when endeavoring to make an u.s.
sembly of children understand that the |
wearing of a uniform was a mark of dis |
tinction, and involved responsibilities,
he said: 'FYou see a man walking very
erect, dressed in red coat; who is he q"
'tA soldier, sir" ''Right. You see a
man wearing a kind of helmet, and
dressed in blue; who is he 2" ga police
man, SIR" Fright again" Then the
preacher, with parson in mind, said:
''You see a man dressed in a black coat,
and wearing high white collar; who is
he 2" ga masher, sir"
ENGINEER JACK ELLIS of Williams
port, Pa., has very large and wise
crow. He is two feet long from the tip
of his beak to the tip of his tail feathers,
and is scientific thief A shepherd
dog. chained to kennel in the yard, is
one Of his worst victims. Whenever he
sees the dog gnawing bone he sneaks
up behind him and grabs him by the
tail; the sudden attack causes the dog to
wheel quickly about to find out what is
there, but the crow hangs on, and goes
around with the tail to where the covet-
instant is out of the reach of the angry
animal
GILBERs PATTY, of College Corner,
Ind, loved Della, the lovely daughter
# Farmer w. w. Copstick, and Della
owed Gilbert. But her father was down
IL the young man, and said that he
houldn't have his daughter. So on a
ecent Sunday, when al the Copsticks
7ere at church save Della, Gilbert drove
p in buggy and Della jumped in be-
ide him, and away they went. But be- ,
ore they could find a Justice to marry /
hem old man Copstick, on fast horse, :
them, yanked Della out of the ]
uggy, set her on the horse, and mount /
lg behind her galloped home, leaving ?
hilbert disconsolate. (
BISHOP ALEXANDER w. WAYMAN, the
reat leader of the colored Methodists,
sked, the other day, why the colored !
'eople of the South increased so much /
more rapidly than the white, answered:
we draw from three sources, while the
7hite people only draw from one-every
olored woman whose husband is white, :
he children are set down on our side; {
very white woman whose husband is
olOred, which condition exists in the
Worth, the children are set down on our
idle; every offspring of pure African
iOod, of course, is set down on our side;
lille the white people only draw from
ne source, themselves.
IT IS SAID that wrinkles are due to the
radual wearing away of the flesh under
cath the skin, because it Inns too little :
T the wrong kind of exercise. Wrinkles !
{ the face usually take q downward :
curse, due to washing and wiping the ,
zee; therefore, wash and wipe upward.
o fill out checks that are growing hol-
w this is recommended: Take piece g.;
{ soft lcather-kid Or chamoise skin T
Ill do-end put the end of it between r